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Melrose

Melrose is a South Bronx neighborhood next to the Hub shopping district, centered between East 149th and East 163rd streets from Park Avenue east toward St. Anns Avenue; the city's tabulation area reaches farther east along Westchester Avenue. Melrose and Third avenues are its main streets. It has one of the Bronx's highest concentrations of NYCHA housing alongside many newer buildings: PLUTO data counts about 18,300 residential units, about 53% in elevator buildings, about 25% in NYCHA-owned buildings, and about 33% in buildings from 2000 or later. The 2 and 5 stop at 3 Av-149 St, Jackson Av and Prospect Av, and the 6 at E 149 St is just outside. Metro-North's Harlem Line stops at Melrose station on East 162nd Street, just west of the boundary.

Melrose has 16,167 open HPD housing violations, 3,935 of them Class C (immediately hazardous). Inspectors issued 10,005 new violations here in the last 12 months. That's the 21st most open violations of 39 neighborhoods in Bronx.

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Open HPD violations
16,167
3,935 Class C
New violations, last 12 months
10,005
2,992 Class C · 17th in Bronx
How serious are the open violations?
Open HPD violations by class
Class C3,935 · 24%Class B7,585 · 47%Class A4,647 · 29%Class A here includes a small number of Class I orders.

Source: NYC HPD Housing Maintenance Code Violations · data as of Oct 15, 2026

New violations in the last 12 months
By class
  • Class C · immediately hazardous2,992
  • Class B · hazardous4,479
  • Class A · non-hazardous2,189

Source: NYC HPD Housing Maintenance Code Violations · data as of Oct 15, 2026

Good to know

  • Subway: 2 and 5 at 3 Av-149 St, Jackson Av and Prospect Av; E 149 St (6) just outside
  • Metro-North Harlem Line at Melrose station (East 162nd Street), about 190 m outside the boundary
  • About 25% of residential units are in NYCHA-owned buildings (PLUTO 26v2)
  • About 33% of residential units are in buildings from 2000 or later
  • Adjoins The Hub, a long-established Bronx business district

Before you rent or buy here

Check the buildingLook up any address for violations, complaints and owner.Read the violation classesWhat A, B and C mean and how fast owners must fix them.Work out your budgetThe 40× income rule most NYC landlords use.

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Fact-checked October 12, 2026

Boundaries, the Hub, NYCHA concentration and Metro-North station from Wikipedia. Housing figures computed from PLUTO 26v2 residential units, with lots assigned to this NTA through 2020 census tracts (NYC Planning tract-to-NTA codes); building type uses PLUTO building class (C = walk-up, D = elevator, A/B = one- and two-family). Subway stations placed by point-in-polygon test of MTA station coordinates against the 2020 NTA boundary (data.cityofnewyork.us 9nt8-h7nd); 'just outside' means within about 150 m of the edge. Re-verified 2026-10-12: recomputed every PLUTO 26v2 share from the raw lots (2020 tract-to-NTA codes from data.cityofnewyork.us 63ge-mke6) and re-ran the station point-in-polygon test against the 2020 NTA file. Wikipedia's St. Anns Avenue east line conflicts with the NTA, which contains the Jackson Av and Prospect Av stations; reworded. Melrose Metro-North station is about 190 m outside the NTA per MTA Rail Stations coordinates.

Sources

  1. Melrose, Bronx (Wikipedia) · Wikipedia (accessed October 12, 2026)
  2. Primary Land Use Tax Lot Output (PLUTO), version 26v2 · NYC Department of City Planning (accessed October 12, 2026)
  3. MTA Subway Stations (station list with routes and coordinates) · Metropolitan Transportation Authority (accessed October 12, 2026)
  4. MTA Rail Stations (Metro-North and LIRR station coordinates) · Metropolitan Transportation Authority (accessed October 12, 2026)
  5. 2020 Neighborhood Tabulation Areas (NTAs) · NYC Department of City Planning (accessed October 12, 2026)

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“Open” counts every HPD violation not yet recorded as corrected, including old ones owners never certified, so totals can exceed the number of apartments. Statistics: NYC Open Data (HPD violations, 311 service requests, DCP PLUTO) and rent-stabilized counts from DOF tax bills (via JustFix), updated Oct 15, 2026. Heat season runs October 1 to May 31; season-to-date counts compare the same dates.